Lewis Hamilton hailed Imola as an “incredible and fast” circuit, but the six-time world champion says overtaking opportunities will be at a premium on Sunday. Hamilton kicked off his Emilia Romagna GP weekend by setting the pace in Saturday’s single practice session, after which he gave the venue a big thumbs up. “This track is…
The Senate is emerging as Democrats’ most promising recruiting ground for a presidential candidate in 2020 — in part because of the party’s deep losses in gubernatorial mansions. The ranks of Democratic governors have been hit, with a string of losses reducing their numbers to a paltry 16. That’s leaving the Senate as perhaps the…
A report conducted by three international war crimes prosecutors and released to news organizations Monday claims to provide “clear evidence” of “industrial-scale killing” of 11,000 detainees at the hands of the Syrian government. The report pulls from a trove of government photographs and documents, as well as testimony provided by a former Syrian military police…
To the cheers of environmental groups, fossil fuel giant Shell announced Thursday that it is shelving its plans to drill in the Alaskan Arctic in 2014. The company cited a court decision from last week that found that the U.S. Department of the Interior did not accurately assess the potential environmental impacts from a spill…
Joey Janela is off tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite as a COVID-19 precaution. AEW announced this afternoon that Janela has been pulled from tonight’s Dynamite after having exposure to someone at an independent wrestling show who later tested positive for COVID-19. “AEW and Joey Janela learned today that he had exposure to a known COVID-19…
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Sam Roberts is getting his own weekly series on the WWE Network. Roberts announced today that “Notsam Wrestling” will premiere on the WWE Network at 10 a.m. Eastern time next Thursday (October 22). The show will air weekly on Thursdays and will be available on both the paid and free versions of the WWE Network. Roberts…
As part of his plan to push the city through bankruptcy proceedings, a proposal submitted by Detroit’s so-called ‘Financial Emergency Manager’ Kevyn Orr on Friday confirmed the worst fears of public pensioners as it called for a 34% slashing of monthly payments for retired city workers, many of whom rely solely on those delayed and…
In its largest capital project in history, Enbridge plans to do what Transcanada so far can’t — ship more than half a million barrels of heavy oil across the U.S. border without President Barack Obama’s direct approval. Late Monday evening, Enbridge announced plans for its largest capital project in history— a $7 billion replacement of its Line 3…
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, conscious of the stark ineffectiveness of the Security Council over the upheaval in Ukraine, is engaged in a round of shuttle diplomacy with Russian and Ukrainian leaders to help resolve the crisis in that region. “The secretary-general is desperately trying to create a U.N. role in the spreading…